Welcome to Namibia!

We landed in Namibia yesterday!  We’re taking some time to meet business aquantances of my professor, and tomorrow we will drive to Ondangwa, where I will spend the next month working with the cooperative. 

When we landed, a friend of Georgia’s met us and made small talk.  He insisted that chicken and pork are vegetables- and then handed us biltong, below.  It's like jerky, but less processed.   

The country is beautiful, even though it's winter here.  Our travel has been really interesting, because our business acquaintances are Afrikaans, so we hear their stories and perspectives on history.  They speak English, though Afrikaans is their native tongue, and are descended from Dutch, French, and German settlers.  I'm surprised at how western my experience has been- the home we stayed in could have been in Arizona, and the family dog is really cute.  American television and music are everywhere.  Of course, many things are different- they drive on the right, and people walk and hitch hike way more than in the states.